Fwd: 1.7 and 7.5 status: we're frozen

[Matt Turner]

Hi Alpha users,

I just received the attached email from the xorg-devel list. X.Org 7.5
(xserver-1.7) has been frozen for release. I've not been able to get
it to work on Alpha.

I just received xserver commit access today, and I want to make sure
that X.Org 7.5 works on Alpha in time for its release - so I need your
help.

Gentoo users: please use the x11 overlay from layman and build
xorg-server-9999 with associated dependencies.
Debian/Fedora/other: please build X.Org from git.

I need testing of various video cards/drivers, namely
  o xf86-video-ati, with[0] and without KMS
  o xf86-video-glint [0]
  o xf86-video-mga

I don't care if you don't like IRC, please join for a couple days to
help us make sure that we can have a quality X.Org/Alpha release.
#alpha on Freenode.

Additionally, there is a lot of code in the xserver to support Alphas
without BWX instructions (EV4 and EV5, EV56+ has BWX). We could really
clean up a lot of cruft by dropping support for these systems. Also,
removing this extra layer of indirection might provide a small
speed-up for BWX-enabled Alphas.

So, does anyone care about X on EV4 or EV5 Alphas?

I've cross-posted, so make sure you hit Reply-All.

Thanks,
Matt Turner

[0] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23227
[1] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21546


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>
Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Subject: 1.7 and 7.5 status: we're frozen
To: xorg-devel at lists.x.org


Hi,
Sorry for the paucity of updates (as well as progress).

After a chat with Peter, we decided to postpone XKB2 (yet again) to 1.8,
to give it more time to mature, as opposed to just dropping it in the
tree, and also to allow us to make any updates to Xi that may be
required after actually deploying it with 1.7.

This means that we're not blocking on anything major for 1.7 bar
stabilisation work and bug fixes, which means ...

XSERVER IS FROZEN.  PLEASE DON'T COMMIT ANYTHING MAJOR, OR ANY API
BREAKS, WITHOUT CHECKING WITH ME AND/OR PETER FIRST.

1.6.99.900 will be rolled some time over the weekend, with .901 to
follow fairly shortly after that.  We'll branch the server when it makes
sense -- probably pretty close to .901 or .902.

Xi proto/libs need a final release at some stage, but most of the other
modules are looking fairly good at the moment, and indeed already have
releases.

I'm hoping this means a final 1.7 and 7.5 release shortly before, or
during, XDC.

If you maintain a weird platform, please get building the stack and let
us know of any problems so we can release a 7.5 that actually works
everywhere.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Daniel

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